Staple package



D. R. LA PLACE STAPLE PACKAGE Filed July 23, 1940 Jan. 20, 1942.

Patented Jan. 20, 1942 STAPLE PACKAGE Desmond R. La Place, Pittsburgh, Pa.,` assignor to Bocjl Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pa., a corporation of Delaware Application July 23, 1940, serial No. 346,958

Claims.

This invention pertains to a package or assembly of individual preformed staples, and the present application constitutes a continuationin-part of my copending application Serial No. 323,551, filed March 12, 1940 for Improvement in stapling hammer.

In preparing preformed staples for use in conventional types of stapling machines, it has heretofore been the practice to arrange the staples in long rows. The staples are stuck together in side-by-side alinement by easily frangible adhesive. These long rows of staples are easily broken into fragments, and frequently instead of the fragments being charged into stapling machines they are thrown away.

According to the present invention, the individual staples vare secured together as heretofore ln rows, and several rows of staples are secured together forming a block or biscuit of staples. With this arrangement, one row of staples reinforces another, and the biscuit may be handled as a convenient unit or package with much less likelihood of the charge being broken into fragments. Moreover, by arranging the staples in a biscuit in the fashion indicated, it is possible to place as a unit many hundred staples in a relatively small package.

In my copending application above-referred to, I have shown one form of staplng hammer adapted to utilize staples arranged in such form.

My invention may be readily understood by reference t9 the accompanying drawing in which- Figure l is a perspective View ofr a clip or biscuit of staples embodying my invention;

Figure 2 is a similar view of a modied package; and

Figure 3 is a detailed fragmentary view showing the manner in which the staples are partially nested in order to more effectively aline the superimposed rows of staples and produce a stronger clip or biscuit.

In the drawing, 2 designates the individual rows of preformed staples, all of the staples in each row being arranged in the same direction and all of the staples in the biscuit or clip being arranged in the same direction so that the staples of the several rows are in point-to-back arrangement. The staples are held together by a temporary medium as for example, an easily frangible glue or thin film of cellulose or gelatin. The same material that is now used to cement the staples together in a row may also be used for cementing the several rows of staples together.

When the staples are thus arranged in pointto-back relation, the points of one row nest to a very slight extent over the backs of the staples which they contact, as clearly shown in Figure 3. In Figure 3, 3 designates the individual staples, and it will be noted that the points 4 of the upper staple engage the bent corners 5 of the under staple. This slight nesting of one row of staples on another serves to center the several rows of staples one on top of the next and renders the biscuit more secure against accidental breakage. For use in a hammer as disclosed in my said copending application, each row of staples preferably contains from 30 to 60 staples forming a rectangular body, but the number of staples and shape of the biscuit depend upon the size of the staples and the size of the magazine of the driving tool into which the biscuit is inserted. The arranging of the staples in superimposed rows makes a structure which is less apt to be accidentally broken than a single long row of staples containing the same number of individual staples. The biscuit is also more easily handled than a single long row of staples and can be more economically packed.

My invention further contemplates that a number of the individual biscuits shown in Figure l may be secured together by some temporary bonding means in side-by-side relation as shown in Figure 2, thus enabling several thousand staples to be provided in a very compact package that can be charged as a unit into the magazine of a suitably constructed tool. In Figure 2, 6 designates the assembly as a whole. 1 desnates the parallel units shown in Figure 1, and 8 designates the short rows of staples which form the units or biscuits 1.

While the invention is specifically described in connection with a biscuit or unit made up by the use of an adhesive, it is contemplated that the individual rows of staples may be secured together by any means which will hold the rows of staples together as a unit with one row pressed iirmly against another to reinforce the individual rows against breakage and provide a unit charge for the machine in which they are to be consumed.

While I have illustrated and described certain particular embodiments of my invention, it will be understood that various changes and modifications may be made in the construction Y of the package within the contemplation of my invention and under the scope of the following claims.

I claim as my invention:

1. As a new article of manufacture, a biscuit of staples comprising a plurality of rows of staples, each row comprising a plurality of individual staples cemented together in alinement, the rows of staples being 'also adhesi'vely connected, the rows of staples being turned in the same direction with the ends thereof in alinement and with the sides of the several rows in a common plane.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a plurality of rows of staples in which the individual staples of a row are cemented together and wherein the Several rows gether, the rows of staplesV being arranged in point-to-back relation.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a biscuit of staples comprised of a plurality of rows of staples, the staples of each row being cemented together; the several rows being also cemented together, the points of all of'thestaples being turned in the same direction, and the rows of are detachably held tostaples being arranged in point-to-back relation. 4. As a new article of manufacture, a biscuit of staples comprised of a plurality of relatively short rows of staples, the staples of each row being cemented together, the several rows being secured together in contacting relation, the points of all of the staples being turned in the same direction, and the rows of staples being arranged in point-to-back relation, the back portions of one row of staples being slightly nested between the points of the next adjacent row.

5. As a new article of manufacture, a package of staples comprising a plurality of biscuits of staples bonded together by an easily frangible adhesive, each biscuit being comprised of a plurality of short rows of staples in point-to-back relation, the said short rows of staples being adhesively joined together and the individual staples in each short row being adhesively joined together.

, l DESMOND R.V LA PLACE. 

